That’s a pretty big damn deal considering how hard it’s still been for the animation studio to give us consistently Black characters overall.įor example, outside of Bailey’s Ariel, Disney has only had one Black princess-Tiana in the 2009 hit, The Princess and the Frog.
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While many white adults are complaining about the skin color of a character that is over 30 years old, Black youth are embracing the evolution of Disney’s once all-lily-white princess syndrome. Many young Black girls are seeing a trailer of a once-beloved white character and loving her anew with skin as dark as theirs. Black people were living in a world where it was legal to treat them as second-class citizens.Įighty years later, it appears things have changed for the better. Board of Education case used the Clarks’ doll test to make their case)-it should come as no surprise that Black children suffered from low self-esteem. The conclusion drawn from this study was that “color in a racist society was a very disturbing and traumatic component of an individual’s sense of his own self-esteem and worth.” Looking at where Black Americans were at the time-no Civil Rights Act, Jim Crow laws in effect and segregation tolerated (NAACP lawyers arguing against school segregation in the landmark Brown v. Even worse, many of them grew upset with having to identify with the Black doll they had spoken ill about. Sadly, they often preferred the white dolls and attributed positive values to them in comparison to speaking negatively about the Black dolls. Known as “ The Doll Test,” the pair tested how Black kids reacted when given the choice to play with both Black dolls and white dolls. In the 1940s, Kenneth and Mamie Clark, a married Black psychological research couple, conducted a groundbreaking study on how Black children viewed their racial identity. The good news is that while they might have a problem imagining us, the youth are seeing (and saying) otherwise. From not wanting Black hobbits to decrying seeing Black royalty, white people seem to believe in fire-breathing dragons, wizardry and witchcraft more than diversity itself. Similar controversies have also arisen as Black performers have been given roles in traditionally all-white casts in the new spinoffs of Game of Thrones and The Lord of the Rings. White people trying to control not only planet Earth but imaginary worlds have been a trend lately. When you can imagine dragons but not imagine Black people in fantasy stories, your racism is showing All over social media, there are tons of videos of young Black girls from around the world reacting positively to the new trailer of Bailey singing the iconic “Part of Your World” from the film. This time around, it’s The Little Mermaid starring a Black Ariel played by musical wonder Halle Bailey. Today, a new generation of Black girls are having a similar moment with Disney’s latest live-action remake of one of its animated classics. Overall, these experiences reassured us that there was a world in which Black men could win victoriously and defeat evil in a society that celebrated them. Seeing them win championship belts and defeat their white counterparts in the most assured (and often cocky) demeanor gave us a level of confidence in ourselves that was unmatched. WWF had Black wrestlers such as Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Mark Henry and Booker T.
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Growing up, the Black Power Ranger was literally Black with actor Walter Emanuel Jones transforming into a superhero who could do backflips, kick butt and arguably play the coolest character on a series that often lacked melanin elsewhere. Black Twitter heard Halle Bailey as Ariel in ‘The Little Mermaid,’ and it luvs her!